- Our regular commenter Jenni wants to share a new geek feminist group blog she’s writing for: Bad Reputation. From the first post:
Our strapline is a feminist pop culture adventure. We’re named after a Joan Jett song for a reason – we want to be a good first route in for people just starting to become interested in gender issues, and we also want to reclaim some of the inspiring, rock ‘n’ roll energy that characterised the feminist movement in previous generations.
. - A prologomena to all future blathering about gender on the Internet:
I am proposing a new maxim: those who wish to argue from personal anecdote that a certain character trait is dictated by evolution should endeavor to advance the argument beyond 1792.
- K. A. Laity on Joanna Russ on Slash Fiction: Laity highlights some of Russ’s analysis of slash.
- Oh goody: bodies presented in cinema will be even less attached to the real appearance of humans. Software to slim actors on-screen
- Art in the roller derby medium: BUMP flesh bump data -> live art units:
For Bloodbath, the packs also have a virtual life, from robust wireless sensors (wiimotes) installed on the heads of players, collision, speed and rotational information is sent to a server and from there, on to data driven artworks. The artists are making their artworks live on site, in real-time, and these are projected as the game is played out.
- Pat has begun a series of posts on feminist readings of the Achewood comic.
- Women helping women get into tech:
Girl Develop IT, an educational effort [Sara Chipps] helped start, is introducing women of all ages to programming.
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